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...eskimos have a lot of words for snow, but they have a lot of snow. I am not convinced that we have cultural justification for matching up every step of the very well-defined process of hooking up with a word from every part of speech...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard-Speak | 10/27/1990 | See Source »

Since August KidsPort has kept thousands of little fingers and big imaginations busy by offering earthbound youngsters an opportunity to explore everything from the dynamics of flight to the clothes people wear. A Rocky Mountain climb on a special surface and a jump into Colorado's famed powder snow (actually 60,000 white balls) have also let the sports-minded unwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Down-to-Earth Fun | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...business is doing anything but schussing these days. Equipment sales have been logy, in part because of last year's snow drought in Europe. A company would need a lot of nerve to launch a pricey new board right now, but France's Salomon is plunging ahead with a ski that the trade magazine Snow Country called the "most talked-about product to hit the ski market since the plastic boot." A leading manufacturer of ski boots and bindings, Salomon spent six years and $40 million developing its first ski ever. The result is the S9000 Equipe, a superfast, lightweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTING GOODS: The Hottest Ride on Snow | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...HAVE fond memories of snow. In second grade, I used to wake up several hours before the rest of the house to listen to Jim Scott's school closings on WKRC. During my first year, the first snowfall was greeted by a huge party in the Yard...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

Instead, burdened with memories of dead horses on roadsides and German planes strafing the refugees, the teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland The Man Who Did His Duty | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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